However it would take as long if not longer to get from Montgomery to the coast at Aberystwyth as it would to go straight to Liverpool ... Could have sailed the last leg from Flint or Ellesmere Port though If travel was by water the Montgomery/Ellesmere canal would be more likely.  The Llanymynech branch of the Ellesmere canal was completed in 1796 and linked to the Montgomery Canal in 1797. Ellesmere Port got its name as the port for Ellesmere in Shropshire after the canal was built. (previously it was called  Netherpool) There were regular packet boats taking passengers along the canals until superceded by the railways These canals, with the Llangollen, are now together called Shropshire Union Canal Joan ________________________________ From: Marj Bennett <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: eng-liverpool@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2014, 21:19 Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] ENG-LIVERPOOL Digest, Vol 9, Issue 117 As late as the 1920s, my mother's two brothers went from Liverpool to Whitehaven in Cumberland by boat.  Sadly they are all dead to I can't find out any details of what kind of boat it was but it won't have been anything very large! I know it's not Wales, but it shows that people did go to places on various coasts from Liverpool.  And until the 1970s, you could go by boat from Liverpool to Llandudno - what a pity you can't do it now! Marged   In reference to travei from Wales to liverpool in recent letters ,my many   times Great Grand Father from Holywell married a Hester Barker or Burker in   St Nicholas Church Liverpool in Dec 1730 (we have the certificate),they   could have travelled by boat and landed at the Pier Head Liverpool,as we   think many did from Wales ,Nathanial Maddocks was  a Flax Dresser and went   back to Wales and possibly Chester for a while .                                       John Maddocks New Zealand ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3964/7682 - Release Date: 06/15/14 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Admin Message - List guidelines: http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm The list admin can be contacted at Eng-Liverpool-admin@rootsweb.com  Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list.  No fees!  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LIVERPOOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message